Frank hosts East Tennessee PBS Scholars’ Bowl, an academic competition between area high schools. The program airs and streams online weekdays at 5:30 p.m. Frank joined the show starting with its 2017 season.

In September, 2020, he and Krisha Brook launched a new audio and video podcast called The Krisha & Frank Show. New episodes are released each weekday morning. The show is available on all major podcast platforms and at YouTube.com/KrishaAndFrank

World-renowned forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass utilizes Frank at many of his speaking engagements, which are planned by the team at BoneZones.com. Frank serves as emcee, Q&A facilitator, and occasionally as the opening act.

Frank joined the comedy improv troupe Einstein Simplified a month after moving to Knoxville in 2002. The group normally performs on Tuesday nights in Scruffy City Hall on Market Square. They have performed in the Gatlinburg Improv Fest each year since its inception in 2012.

Frank was selected as the 2014 Knoxville recipient of the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. He earned the title “Man of the Year” in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2017 fundraising competition. He served terms as president of the Front Page Foundation and as president of the FBI Knoxville Citizens Academy Alumni Association. In 2012 and 2013, Frank won the Host with the Most stand-up comedy contest to raise money for charity. In September, 2020, he joined the board of Marble City Opera.

Frank has been in the cast of many Oak Ridge Civic Ballet Association productions since 2010, including The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty & the Beast, and Into the Woods. From 2014 to 2018, he was in the cast of the Front Page Follies, an annual musical spoof of local news stories.

Frank is frequently asked to emcee fundraisers and festivals in East Tennessee. Recent events include New Year’s on the Square, the Knoxville St. Patrick’s Parade, the Knox Asian Festival, the Regional Youth Talent Competition, the Knoxville Opera Guild Ball, the Greater Knoxville Heart Walk, the Walk to End Alzheimer’s, the GO! Contemporary Dance Works gala, the Karns Fairest of the Fair Pageant, the Hearth Scares Ball, and the Rocky Hill Christmas Parade. In 2018, he was voted “Knoxville’s Finest Emcee” by the readers of Blank Newspaper.

Frank was the 2014 Social Media inductee in the Friends of Literacy East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame. He can be found on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, and YouTube as @FrankMurphyCom. Frank’s blog, which was active from 2005 to 2015, was voted one of “East Tennessee’s Best” by the readers of the Knoxville News Sentinel for four consecutive years and the “Best of Knoxville” by the readers of Metro Pulse. He is currently writing a book with stories from his life and career.

In Knoxville, Frank was on-air at WOKI-FM, WTXM-FM, WWST-FM, and WNOX-FM. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Frank worked at KPWR-FM, KROQ-FM, and KLOS-FM in Los Angeles and WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C. He graduated from George Mason University, where he won the Senior of the Year award.

Frank’s hobbies include traveling, swimming, and growing figs. He became a KCBS Certified Barbeque Judge in 2013. Frank has visited all 50 states and plans to take his wife Jere to the two states she has not yet visited.